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Originally Posted by Ben Thornton
I thought that this was a light-hearted thread ....
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Nothing about the issues involved are light hearted. Or fun. Or amusing.
It's at the heart of a very real struggle which will define our society and it's control over our lives in the next few decades. Post-scarcity and scarcity economics are competing in the same market space, and the result is not proving pretty.
You cannot
force a hard and fast distinction in the way you're advocating without bringing an axe down on copyright law and re-writing it from the ground up, given the current way copyright law works. Are you arguing that a re-write, now, given the influence which trade
guilds (and I am using the word deliberately, in the old sense of the world) have on governments that it would benefit the consumer?
So...I can only treat your suggestion from the standpoint of the likely result. Adjustment is possible, but a re-write is not going to work at this time.
ChrisC333 - No, it's in
no way misleading to call something an "authorised copy". Because copy is the word - you're dealing with the start of post-scarcity economics now. And yes, right, again: Fair Use is a
defence against accusations of wrongdoing, not a right per-se.